{"id":2363,"date":"2011-07-28T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T14:11:46","slug":"obama-brings-down-congress-aka-techcitement-gets-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/obama-brings-down-congress-aka-techcitement-gets-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Brings Down Congress (AKA Techcitement Gets Political)"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s not uncommon for sites to be slammed <\/a>when a major aggregation site like Digg links to them. On Twitter, there’s even a specific hashtag<\/a> when popular author Neil Gaiman brings down a site. This week, we saw the same sort of thing happen in the political arena when President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the debt ceiling crisis.<\/p>\n “If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of Congress know…If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wherever you fall politically, the result was a tad spectacular<\/a>. As the CNN article notes, 107 of 279 congressional websites were either taken down or slowed to a crawl due to the level of traffic. That’s DOS<\/a> levels of traffic, but from real people.<\/p>\n